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11-12-2016 12:00 AM

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The emergence of digital business platforms, ecosystems and non-linear value chains fosters hyper-connections among human actors, organizations, and processes. Such digital moves have brought cross-industry convergence and the blurring of business ecosystem boundaries, bringing about the possibility of overlapping business ecosystems, generating complex socio-technical issues. In this research-in-progress paper, we unpack the processes of how China’s LeEco develop from an emergent digital platform to a self-organizing digital business ecosystem. Drawing on theoretical notions of boundary spanning practice, we posit that towards a self-organizing digital business ecosystem, managers must seek to instill a conducive environment that reinforces, reciprocates and reproduces digital infrastructure through organizational coalition, congruence and hybridity respectively. Towards theoretical and practitioner contributions, ongoing analysis seeks to unpack the process of managing overlapping digital business ecosystems, the conditions under which they operate, the role of digital infrastructure in transition across organizational forms, the implications and outcomes.

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The emergence of digital business platforms, ecosystems and non-linear value chains fosters hyper-connections among human actors, organizations, and processes. Such digital moves have brought cross-industry convergence and the blurring of business ecosystem boundaries, bringing about the possibility of overlapping business ecosystems, generating complex socio-technical issues. In this research-in-progress paper, we unpack the processes of how China’s LeEco develop from an emergent digital platform to a self-organizing digital business ecosystem. Drawing on theoretical notions of boundary spanning practice, we posit that towards a self-organizing digital business ecosystem, managers must seek to instill a conducive environment that reinforces, reciprocates and reproduces digital infrastructure through organizational coalition, congruence and hybridity respectively. Towards theoretical and practitioner contributions, ongoing analysis seeks to unpack the process of managing overlapping digital business ecosystems, the conditions under which they operate, the role of digital infrastructure in transition across organizational forms, the implications and outcomes.